Deployment and updates

[Ricardo Luceac]

Hi all...

I'm developing a system for a hospital in windows forms and now comes to
me to see the deployment of the application...

First to come to my mind was clickonce, but the problem is that it does
not install to all user, so that every user that wants to use it have to
go to the download site and install it...

Them it comes msi installer... This works fine, but how can I manage the
updates with that??? The updater block is no longer supported and for
that I think it's not a good choice...

Does someone knows another method, or another framework or service t do
that???

Thx...

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Ricardo,

Honestly, I think the fact that every user has to install the app is a
small consideration to pay given the benefits of ClickOnce in this
situation. Once the app is installed, the user should see it in their start
menu. It's a one-time cost.

 

[RobinS]

I agree, Plus, then if you have some kind of settings that are
user-specific, like screen location, size, etc., each user has his own.

RobinS.
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Ricardo,

Honestly, I think the fact that every user has to install the app is a
small consideration to pay given the benefits of ClickOnce in this
situation. Once the app is installed, the user should see it in their
start menu. It's a one-time cost.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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Hi all...

I'm developing a system for a hospital in windows forms and now comes to
me to see the deployment of the application...

First to come to my mind was clickonce, but the problem is that it does
not install to all user, so that every user that wants to use it have to
go to the download site and install it...

Them it comes msi installer... This works fine, but how can I manage the
updates with that??? The updater block is no longer supported and for
that I think it's not a good choice...

Does someone knows another method, or another framework or service t do
that???

Thx...